Mumbai food: Best pocket-friendly eateries around college campuses

‘CAMPUS’ WITH THE BEST STREET FOOD

Dhaval Desai during Amar Juice Centre, Vile Parle. Pics/Tehniyat Fatima

Mithibai College, Vile Parle
Amar Juice Centre is a thirst-quencher for Mukesh Patel Engineering and MBA College, DJ Sanghvi and Bhagubai College, Mithibai and NM Colleges. Dhaval Desai, 19, says for years, a fun has been that these colleges don’t have a campus, though a highway creates adult for it. “But, a area has a best travel eats.” The DJ Sanghvi tyro says Rs 100 will offer we a whole day. And we won’t be strapped for accumulation either.
Desai recommends:

Pizza French Fries
VJ Café on Second Road serves French fries that come in flavours like chipotle (Rs 100), pizza (Rs 130) and chilli cheese (Rs 100). “We customarily share a food, so R50 per conduct is a inexpensive deal,” says Desai, popping a cheesy grill into his mouth.
AT: VJ Cafe, Shree Nataraj Building, NS Road No 2, JVPD lane, Vile Parle West
TIMINGS: 10 AM – 11 PM
CALL: 9833391625

ICE PAAN
The trail, Desai tells us, is deficient though ice paan (Rs 25). The extra-large sized paan surfaced with gulkand, comes to us in a paper plate. We punch into it, and a ice crushes between a molars, as a cold reduction take over a senses. Perfecto!
AT: Brijwasi Paan Bhandar, conflicting Sahakari Bhandar, VM Road, JVPD Scheme, Juhu

Pav Bhaji
We are a approved country, and a butter floats openly with all a might. The erotic pav deteriorate yellow, and a bhaji is sharp and inexhaustible in portion. The steam idli and pav sandwich also fly off a shelves here.
AT: Amar Juice Centre, subsequent to Cooper Hospital, Road No 1, Vile Parle West
TIMINGS: 10 AM – 1 AM
CALL: 23642205

Onion and cheese kulcha
We’ve listened of pressed parathas, though a tender of pressed kulchas sounds tantalizing too. The prohibited onion and cheese kulcha (Rs 160) comes with black dal, chole and pickle. The naan tears easily, divulgence a reduction of onion and cheese. The commanding of coriander and dill rises a taste. We cackle this with a lemon iced tea (Rs 80), a fresher chronicle of those accessible during coffee shops.
AT: WTF, conflicting Sahakari Bhandar, VM Road, JVPD Scheme, Juhu
TIMINGS: 10.30 AM – 12.30 AM
CALL: 26247917

Ferero Rocher Milkshake
Known for a mushroom, paneer and aloo wraps, a bestseller here is a Ferero Rocher Milkshake (R150). It’s a ideal splash for a balmy day.
AT: Ice ‘N’ Rolls, conflicting Bhaidas Hall, circuitously Mithibai College, Vile Parle West
TIMINGS: 10 AM – 11 PM
CALL: 26175528

NEW MEETS OLD, BUT WITHIN BUDGET

SIES College of Arts, Science and Commerce, Sion(W)
Third-year undergrad friends Reeba George and Anmol Dutta have graphic palates and determine to remonstrate on a rest. Together, they indicate out a best of what a SIES College line has to offer. The area has a good brew of travel staples such as inexpensive sandwiches and frankies. There was a time when Guru Kripa, famed for a samosas, reigned supreme. Fancier options apportionment Italian transport have non-stop now and smaller joints have makeshift to support to a business that likes to experiment.

Rocket fries and red velvet ice cream
Lots of cosy couches means lots of students lazing around over milkshakes. Their Italian menu and dessert conflicting rivals a Café Coffee Day opening nearby, that we are told, is a indentation for dates, given gangs of friends hang out here. “It has a wider preference than CCD and is a tad cheaper too,” says Anmol, adding that her go-to object here is a outlandish burger (at Rs 100). “I cite this over a outlandish pizza, that during Rs 200, doesn’t fit my budget,” she explains. The rocket fries (Rs 100) come with a inexhaustible showering of peri peri masala. We wouldn’t mind a dollop of mayo either. The red velvet ice cream does a pretence too.
WHERE: Café Istaa, 12A/1, New Sion CHS Ltd, Sion
TIMINGS: 10 AM – 11 PM
CALL: 24083376

Gurukripa Sandwich
Cheese and chocolate is a bottom line of a tyro appetite. A seven-minute travel from SIES College mount a garland of break stalls, where Reeba and Anmol collect their favourite combination. Sandwiches from
Gurukripa case and juices and shakes from BM Juice Centre (BM translates into Bharat Mata). The chocolate sandwich went for a slimey overload, that we liked, and a chocolate milkshake was abounding too.
WHERE: Gurukripa Sandwich and BM Fresh Juice Centre, TV Chidambaram Marg, Sion Circle
TIMINGS: 9 AM – 9 PM
CALL: 9967542410

Mayo Frankie
Spicy, packaged with veggies and cheese, and dollop of butter, mayo frankie is a good hit. Right conflicting a college, this is a hotspot to squeeze a discerning punch and rush behind to class, or taste on a break as we purchased stationery. “It is easy on a slot and a tummy,” says Anmol. Other tyro favourites here are panneer cold cheese frankie, noodle frankie and manchurian frankie. “We customarily lay and eat by a devalue wall of a stadium nearby,” says Reeba.
WHERE: Jalaram Stores, conflicting SIES College, Jain Society
TIMINGS: 8 AM – 8 PM

Lassi and samosa chole
Reeba says that given any image here is modestly priced, it works for students. The lassi, bedecked with pistachios, was tasty, and softly sweet. The samosa chole is good comfort food, ideal for a stormy season. “If we wish to hangout here, we have to eat slowly, though who cares? Things are unequivocally inexpensive over here!” says Reeba.
WHERE: Guru Kripa Hote, SIES lane, Sion
TIMINGS: 8 AM – 11 PM
CALL: 24074188

A suacy and sour affair

Pics/Sayyed Sameer Abedi

KC College Churchgate
How do we confirm on a best eat-outs outward of college, when your canteen is unbeatable? Twenty-year-old Punya Jain, a final-year BFM (Bachelors of Finance Management) student, claims to have asked herself this question, a time too many. Then, she stumbled on a few good eateries circuitously and realised that a hunt for good food, could never unequivocally end. Punya follows a despotic Jain diet, and we suspicion it would shave her options. But, it is frequency an issue.

Jain Pizza Fries
All we French-fries fans out there, here’s a discerning suggestion: Move on! At The J Café, banana fries is a in-thing. Custom-made for Jains, they are layered with pizza sauce, Jain cheese salsa and mozzarella cheese. The pizza fries (R150), served prohibited in a cone, are a leader from a word go. Started by Jai Vaswani in 2012, The J draws  students in throngs. We got a sequence delivered in 5 minutes, though during rise hours, be prepared to wait. For non-vegetarians, there are some good salsas to be enjoyed with potato fries and smoked duck sausage. 
WHERE: The J, Vaswani Mansion, Dinshaw Vacha Rd, Churchgate
TIMINGS: 9 AM –  12 PM
CALL: 22844650

Pasta Cheese Roll
Biting into a sandwich pressed with pasta is a opposite fun altogether. Prema, who runs Raju Sandwich Stall, is an gifted palm during sandwich-making given 1978. It’s his chutneys, however, that he is many unapproachable of. We were served a pasta cheese hurl (Rs 55) with immature and red garlic chutney (placed artfully on a paper plate). The sauced-up pasta was soft, and warp in a mouths.  
WHERE: Raju Sandwich Stall, Opposite KC College, Dinshaw Vacha Rd, Churchgate
TIMINGS: 8 AM –  9 PM
CALL: 9930599195

Food re-invented
Ramnarain Ruia College, Matunga
Hunger pangs mostly take a violence in a boiling afternoon heat, but, when 3 eager girls from Ruia College uncover us around their favourite eating spots, there was no stopping. Anushka Raote, and her friends, Rishika Ghosh and Ruchi Balakrishna — all second year Bachelors of Arts students — don’t attend lectures as mostly as they step out of college for some grub. “We are hard-core foodies,” Raote explains, earnest to take us over a evergreen pav bhaji during DP (Durga Parmeshwari).

Paani puri shots and Fruit beer
“If you’re during Ruia’s and haven’t visited DP’s, afterwards we substantially have missed a best,” says Raote. We step into a Udipi joint, and see pav bhaji drifting off a kitchen shelves. But, Raote and friends opt for a paani puri shots (R35) and fruit
beer (Rs 25). The paani puri was served in a shot potion and a girls enjoyed sharpened it down, one shot during a time. The fruit beer, customarily done all seem like one vast ‘innocent’ party.   
WHERE: DP’s Fast Food, 153, Nanda Deep Building, Lakhamsi Nappu Road, Opposite Ruia College Matunga Central
TIMINGS: 8 AM –  11.30 PM
CALL: 2414532

Chocolate sandwich
Subhash Sandwich Stall’s triple-layered chocolate sandwich (Rs 80) is mind-bogglingly good. Each bread cut is layered butter, chunks of cooking chocolate and Hershey’s syrup. The sandwich is afterwards toasted and served prohibited heaped with a covering of chocolate shavings. We were beating a fingers, even after we had changed to a subsequent stop.
WHERE: Subhash sandwich stall, Advocate TV Parameswaran Marg, Matunga
TIMINGS: 9 AM – 6 PM
CALL: 9867837622

Low variety, good value
NATIONAL COLLEGE  Bandra West
Bandra houses some of a city’s many sparkling eating joints. And when we contend this aloud, a dual SYBCom students, who’ve assimilated us for a food tour, conflict discordant to a expectations. There are fewer options for students like us, who are always low on cash, contend Murtuza Najib and Priyance Kothari. But millennials being millennials, they have managed to tinge out some eateries that are as good on a stomach as they are on a pocket.

CHILLY CHEESE TOAST
Jay sandwich occupies a path outward a college, though according to a associate foodies, a dilemma is so renouned that it has turn a landmark in a area. It sees crowds during all hours, and according to signboards, all business are accorded equal status. It reads, ‘we will not offer we in your car. You will need to get out of your automobile and come to a counter’. Set adult in 1986 by Jay Patil, a two-feet block case boasts an endless menu, right from a strange sada sandwich to a students’ favourite, masala toast. On a idea of Kothari and Najib, who are regulars here, we sequence a unchanging square-sized chilli cheese toast. For Rs 90. Gulp. Patil offers an explanation. “It used to be about R40, though a cost of vegetables has soared. But it hasn’t influenced a upsurge of students,” he says. The sandwich has a inexhaustible volume of grated cheese on tip and between slices, that are slathered with tasty packet chutney and butter. It’s on a spicer side, though take one punch and you’re guaranteed to get a clarity of because Jay sandwich is what it is.
WHERE: Near National College, 32nd Road, off Linking Road, Linking Road, Bandra (West)
TIMINGS: 8.30 AM – 8.30 PM
CALL: 26058493

COMBINATION FRIED RICE
Just 50 metres divided is Ravi Rice. Set adult in 2001 by Ravi Jadhav, a internal from Pali village, Ravi Rice has been around longer than many students and staff. Najib tells us that he found out about a eatery from his elder brother, who used to investigate during Raheja College and would come here for a pocket-friendly meal. The case serves Chinese right off a wok, with rice, noodles or a multiple of both trimming from R40-80. It also allows a quintessential ‘one-by-two’, alleviation a cut into one’s pockets. We sequence a half image of multiple rice, fiery-looking schezwan rice with chunks of duck and egg for R40. The apportionment is suddenly large, and can be simply common by two.
WHERE: Next to MMK College, Linking Road, Bandra (West)
TIMING: 9.30 AM – 8.30 PM

PANEER SHWARMA
Our subsequent stop is serve down, circuitously Rizvi College. If you’re looking to try over Linking Road, we advise we take a brief rickshaw float to Yummies off Carter Road. Nestled in a still corner, over Salman Khan desirous Bhaijaanz, Yummies has a sundry business right from college students to TV actors and Bollywood celebrities like Salman Khan and John Abraham. “While John likes a iced tea, Salman likes a schezwan rice,” says Elton Fernandes, who runs a emporium with his brother, Maldin. We sequence a Paneer Shwarma for R100, that is pressed with schezwan gravy and inexhaustible chunks of paneer. Try it if we puncture sharp fare.
WHERE: 36A, Rajan, off Cater Road, Rizvi Complex, Bandra West
TIMING: 10 AM – 11 PM
CALL: 26040040

The highway to temptation
KPB Hinduja College Charni Road
There is something for any ardour on a Girgaum and Charni Road stretch. Walk down a highway over Saifee Hospital, and any line cuts to a opposite surprise, and new treat. Nimai Gandhi, a final-year BCom tyro converted into a “foodie” after he assimilated college. “There is so many out here, we can’t conflict a temptation,” he says. Indifferent to a additional calories he could be piling, Gandhi has to punch into a masala toast any morning, finale a day with his favourite milkshake. We couldn’t conflict a binge either. But, before we conduct here, be warned — almost, any eatery owners is possibly christened Raju, or has named his case after a renouned name.

Chocolate milkshake
At a opening of Khau Galli is Shalimar, unarguably Girgaum’s many renouned extract centre. While uninformed fruits hang from a stall, it is a chocolate splash that draws many of a patrons. By night, Shalimar has over 10 use boys, apportionment a cold milkshake to people who line adult outside. It is sole during R50, though we can always separate it with dual friends, and still suffer a glass, only as full. Sprinkled with chocolate chips and confetti, it’s served cold with ice.
WHERE: Shalimar Juice Centre, Khau Galli, Tata Road No 2, Charni Road
TIMINGS: 9 AM to 1 PM
CALL: 9769432671

Sev Khamani
This image is sweet, sour and as elementary as food could get. Sold for only R10 a plate, Gandhi and his friends, customarily travel that additional stretch from college to Khau Galli in Girgaum, to fill on it. Its owners — another Raju bhai — specifically procures a khamani (made from dhokla) from Surat. It is boiled with oil, rye (mustard seeds), hing (asafetida) and curry leaves, and served prohibited with sev and boiled chilis.  
WHERE: Sainath Roxy Snack, Khau Galli, Tata Road No 2, Charni Road
TIMINGS: 7.30 AM – 6 PM
CALL: 7506807034

Masala toast sandwich
The masala toast during Raju Sandwich is ‘out of this world,’ says Gandhi. Just take a punch and let a aloo stuffing do a talking. The stall, run by Raju Deval, has been in business for over 25 years. Though, he sells over 13 opposite kinds of sandwiches, it is a masala toast (R25) that leaves people wanting more. Each sandwich is layered with a special ‘Raju potato stuffing,’ uninformed cabbage, onion, capsicum and tomato slices, before it is toasted and served with red garlic chutney.
WHERE: Raju Sandwich, KPB Hinduja College lane, 315, New Charni Road
TIMINGS: 8 AM – 10.30 PM
CALL: 9821766799

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